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World greenhouse gas levels made unprecedented leap in 2016
Human activity, along with a strong El Nino, drove 2016 greenhouse gas levels to new heights with an unprecedented jump in annual emissions.
Paul Fraser Paul Krummel and Zoe Loh

Nov 1, 2017

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Carbon dioxide set an all-time monthly high in May
It’s official: carbon dioxide set an all-time monthly record. A sobering reminder that humans are pushing the climate into a state unseen in millions of years.
Brian Kahn

Jun 5, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Iceland trial suggests Co2 can be turned into stone (and buried)
Iceland’s geothermal power plants are an ideal place to test pumping carbon dioxide underground.
Dom Wolf-Boenisch

Jun 10, 2016

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One year on from the carbon price, Australia’s emissions rebound is clear
If you look at the carbon tax as an experiment, there are four main conclusions you can draw from its results, 12 months after the price was removed.
Hugh Saddler

Jul 22, 2015

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February carbon dioxide levels average 400ppm for first time
For the first time, the February monthly average carbon dioxide levels at the Mauna Loa Observatory have passed 400ppm.
Paul Krummel and Paul Fraser

Mar 9, 2015

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FactCheck: did carbon emissions fall faster before the carbon price?
Minister Hunt’s claim that emissions cuts slowed dramatically while the carbon price was in place is incorrect.
Peter Christoff

Jan 21, 2015

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Experts: Great Barrier Reef’s biggest threat today is coal
Reef historian Iain McCalman, and reef scientist Stephen Palumbi, are monitoring reef degradation from opposite sides of the planet. They compared notes.
Iain McCalman and Stephen Palumbi

Oct 28, 2014

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China may be ready to kick coal habit
Signs are hopeful that China, No.1 emitter of greenhouse gases, will be less reliant on polluting coal that powered its rapid economic rise.
Kieren Cooke

Sep 8, 2014

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Major greenhouse threat from new CFCs found in air
Thirty years of air samples show three new CFC gases potentially 10,000 times more potent than C02 that could add to global warming.
Alex Kirby

Jun 6, 2014

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Earth may have warmed 5C in 13 years when CO2 levels doubled
PETM and associated carbon pulse “are often touted as the best geologic analog for the current” manmade rise in CO2 levels, as a new study notes.
Joe Romm

Oct 14, 2013

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